What causes brain damage?

  Brain injury is defined as any genetic, intrauterine, or postnatal environmental factor that results in abnormal brain development or damage to the brain during the period from gestation until the child’s first birthday, resulting in a range of neurological or behavioral deficits or defects.  High risk factors: low birth weight: an important factor in brain injury; intrauterine distress and birth asphyxia; hyperbilirubinemia, prematurity, intracranial hemorrhage HIE, etc.  Prognosis of brain-injured children Normal Abnormalities: cerebral palsy, mental retardation, mental retardation, epilepsy, visual defects, hearing defects, etc.; attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder, behavioral and emotional abnormalities, learning difficulties